The dominant calcareous organisms on Penguin Bank, a middepth
bank (40-100 m) off the southwestern tip of the island of Molokai,
Hawaii, are red and green algae, benthic foraminifera, and bryozoans. The
sediments on ...

Surface-sediment samples taken from the tops of 47 free-fall, triggerweight,
or piston cores from an area in the western equatorial Pacific (long 1550 E1750
E, lat 100 N-10° S) were separated into three size-fractions ( ...

The common, endemic New Caledonian skink Caledoniscincus
austrocaledonicus is reported for the first time from the far north of the territory,
specifically from lie Surprise in the D'Entrecasteaux Reefs. The herpetofauna ...

Callidictyon abyssorum, gen. et sp. nov., an unusual, net-forming
red alga, is described from deep-water Pacific collections made from the research
submersible Makati'i at 80-m depths on Penguin Bank, off the island
of ...

Massive tree dieback has occurred periodically in the Hawaiian
montane rain forest. The species mainly involved is Metrosideros polymorpha,
which is the prevailing upper canopy tree species throughout most of this ...

Accelerated mortality is attributed to an unusually high percentage
of old trees, an abundance of pathogenic fungi, and a putative lowering
of water tables in the 1960s. There is some evidence to suggest that this may ...

Woody species diversity and the spatial distribution of trees in a subtropical evergreen broadleaf forest on a silicate substrate, Okinawa Island, were investigated to determine the forest’s architectural stratification. ...

Conservation of endangered habitats of South Pacific islands is partially dependent on activity of seed dispersers. In consuming fruits, animals can spread seeds from parent plants to distant sites, thus contributing to ...

Caranx caballus Gunther, a wide-ranging tropical eastern Pacific
carangid fish, was reported from the Hawaiian Islands as C. kuhlii (later as C.
kalla) from only two specimens collected in 1922. Because no further ...

The carbohydrate, lipid, and protein composition of coral tissue
and zooxanthellae were compared in Hawaiian Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus)
colonies kept at different ammonium levels. Corals were maintained at
two ...

Thirty-three species of caridean decapods have been identified
from samples taken from the guyots and their vicinity, a little-sampled region of
the mid-Pacific Ocean. Considering the oligotrophic character of the ...

Six caridean shrimps are reported from the Gulf of California,
Mexico, for the first time: Ambidexter symmetricus, Latreutes parvulus,
and Salmoneus ortmanni were not previously reported in the eastern Pacific;
northern ...

The extent of Robertsonian chromosomal variation in the
iguanid lizard Sceloporus grammicus of Mexico is exceptional among lower
vertebrates, and this case has been the basis for the cascading chromosomal
speciation ...

The historically significant battleship USS Missouri was recently
decommissioned and moved from Bremerton, Washington, to Hawai'i to become
a memorial museum at Pearl Harbor, O'ahu, Hawai'i. Dry-docking was
completed ...